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Professional musician on the class of violin, whose musical taste was formed by Beatles, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Deep Purple and Queen, Alexander Kostruba has been demonstrating bright talent and perfect ear for music from the earliest childhood. Eventually Alexander started to pay more attention to electronic music by Jean Michelle Jarre and Space, which in its turn led to modern club music. Being a fan of almost all electronic music sub styles, Alexander decided to start working with melodic trance music. The great influence by Marcus Schulz and Ozgur Can possessed progressive trance music as dominant. Shortly after the...

The most successful vocal big-beat band in Poland in late-60s. Jerzy Krzemiński (guitar, vocals), Slawomir Kowalewski (bass, vocals), Krzysztof Krawczyk (guitar, vocals) and Marian Lichtman (drums, vocals) first met in 1964. In the beginning were mostly a live backing band for other artists. Toured Poland with German band The Lords. Gained wider attention via appearance at The National song festival in 1966 with singer Slawa Mikolajczyk. Released first EP same year. Krawczyk and Lichtman left in early 1967. In came Marta Martelinska (vocals), Bogdan Borkowski (guitar) and Aleksander Kawecki (drums). Unfortunately, band's story nearly ended in autumn of 1967 with...

Dubrovački trubaduri (Croatian for "Dubrovnik Troubadours") was a Yugoslav beat, folk and pop band from Dubrovnik formed in 1961 by Đelo Jusić, main composer, guitar and mandolin player and leader of the group. They were very popular in former Yugoslavia during the 60s and 70s for their mixture of pop music and medieval folk traditions of their native ancient city on the Adriatic coast. Internationally also known as Dubrovnic Troubadours or The Troubadours Of Dubrovnik, they enjoyed brief popularity across Western Europe having appeared at the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest in London. Their song "Jedan dan" was performed by their...

Zlatna Truba (The Golden Trumpet) is an award for the best (southern balkan gypsy) brass band. It is given away each year at the Guča (Gucha) festival in august every year. Zlatna Truba is not the name of any performer or a brass band. The most famous brass bands, usually named after their trumpetist, leader are Serbian and Macedonian's own Boban Markovic Orkestar, Naat Veliov Kochani Orkestar, Ferus Mustafov, Fead Sejdic and from Romania Fanfare Ciocarlia. .